Tony Hayward announced this morning on the UK Andrew Marr TV show that the new cap put in place by the company is bringing up 10,00 of bar...

So Equitable Life auditors Ernst & Young are to be fined £500,000 by the accountants' Disciplinary Tribunal (reduced on appeal from...

. . . is that the writing is garbage. This, from today's Times : " It is understood that John Gerson, BP’s director of security an...

David Dimbleby is joined in Brecon, Powys by David Willetts, Diane Abbott, Leanne Wood, Matthew Parris and Kelvin MacKenzie. Ne...

The rise of the self-scanning machines Tesco announced another bumper year with £3.4 billion of profits. The supermarket giant marches on. T...

Vince Cable is going to give his update today on how the new Government sees UK PLC developing. There are likely to be some very welcome de...

As new brooms often do, “nuclear sceptic” Chris Huhne has swept around a little and found – who’d have guessed it – a £4bn black hole in una...

James Higham has asked my views on Gold. It is a long time since I wrote on the Gold price. In 2006-8 I was a huge holder of gold, it was m...

Prompted by an email from long-time reader Steven L , it is time to discuss how on Earth BP are going to get out of the mess that they have ...

So - while Baroness Scotland got off with a slap on the wrist , Loloahi gets banged up ! How we need some of that Freedom, Fairness and Re...

All change in the UK Media already. On Thursday the Daily Mail and General Trus t announced a return to profit after a poor couple of years...

A common criticism of Wall Street is that it is fixated on short-term results. Well, most recently Microsoft has been, errr, twice as prof...

Now, I have read John Redwood's letter to the treasury on Capital Gains Tax and it makes a lot of sense, as per usual from John Redwood...

. . . and an excellent lesson for subsidy-wallahs everywhere. Jaguar Land Rover is owned by Tata of India - which, incidentally, doesn'...

David Dimbleby is joined in Gravesend{Gaysend on the website?}in Kent by Alastair Campbell, Piers Morgan, John Redwood, Max Hastings and Su...

We don't expect always to agree with young George around here, but he's got this one right. If there is to be a Europe-wide special...

Thorntons revealed last month that it suffered disappointing trade in the key Easter period, with like-for-like shop sales down 4.6% in t...

As promised, a further contribution to the grim picture CU painted yesterday. 'V'-shaped recovery ? Get a sense of perspective. ...

The FTSE is down another 2.5% today? With all the bad news around like North Korea considering war with South Korea, and the Euro crisis, it...

When we read a carefully-planted newspaper story that Mandy is being considered as a replacement for Tony Hayward at BP, we may be fairly s...